WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Are Star Wars’ Stormtroopers the biggest secret army on Earth? Ruth Alexander investigates, and looks at some of the other numbers behind one of the most successful movie franchises in history.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the short edition of more or less, first broadcast on the BBC World Service. |
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| 0:15.8 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. I'm Ruth |
| 0:21.9 | Alexander. There's loyal listeners, we're always happy to check |
| 0:24.9 | out numbers for our audience, partly as a public service and partly because you have much better ideas than us most |
| 0:29.7 | of the time. We also sometimes look into things for our BBC colleagues if we're in a good mood |
| 0:34.1 | so as it's Christmas we've been doing some work for our friend formerly of this parish |
| 0:38.5 | Rich Knight or as we know him Colossus of Statistical Knowhow. |
| 0:43.0 | Hi Ruth. |
| 0:44.0 | Hello Rich. |
| 0:45.0 | Nice to have you back. |
| 0:46.0 | Now as you know we're a serious program. |
| 0:48.0 | We look at poverty, crime, climate change, immigration and other weighty issues. |
| 0:54.0 | What topical issue are you interested in? |
| 0:56.0 | Star Wars. |
| 0:57.0 | Star Wars? |
| 0:58.0 | Well, if you insist, cue the music. So Rich tell the audience about the question you've had as researching. |
| 1:08.0 | We wanted to know how many Storm troopers there are in the world and to compare that number with the number of actual soldiers. |
| 1:14.3 | Storm Troopid toys? |
| 1:16.3 | Well, yeah, it's not really no, Ruth. |
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